We are committed to transparency. To exercise effective governance and oversight, Compassion in World Farming benefits from the expertise and insight of a high-caliber board of trustees. This expert ...

The Climate Change Committee (CCC) issued its 7th carbon budget this week (26th February) which highlights a critical issue: ...

Absolutely Fabulous star spearheads call to end the use of cages for all UK farmed animals Read more about our investigations.

In January, we joined forces with our wonderful Patron, Joanna Lumley, to launch a parliamentary petition calling on the Government to end the use of cages for all UK farmed animals. In the UK, around ...

Given a natural healthy life, cows can live for twenty years or more. High-yielding dairy cows will typically be slaughtered after three or four lactations because their milk production drops and/or ...

Octopuses are complex, intelligent, and sentient animals, very well known for their eight arms and their amazing cognitive abilities. Studies have shown that octopuses learn easily, can solve problems ...

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More than 50 billion chickens are reared annually as a source of food, for both their meat and their eggs.

Chickens slaughtered for Halal meat are not being stunned effectively. Instead of being rendered instantly unconscious when stunned, they will be receiving a painful electric shock that immobilises ...

Despite the vast body of evidence that shows factory farming to be a bad thing for animals, communities, our health and the planet, the spread of this backwards system of agriculture is showing no ...

Currently, one third of the world’s cereal crop goes to feed the 70 billion farm animals reared every year to produce meat, eggs and dairy products – the majority of them on factory farms. With ...